A Tribute to Manchester United

Probably the best among all the superior football clubs this season, with another chance of having a go for a Treble. A Treble means a team has to win the EPL title, the FA cup and the glorious UEFA CHAMPION LEAGUE.

Manchester United suffered one mournful tragedy in 6 February 1958, after refuelling in Munich on 6 February 1958, the United aeroplane crashed, killing twenty-two people, including seven players – Byrne, Colman, Jones, Pegg, Taylor, Geoff Bent and Liam Whelan. Duncan Edwards became the eighth player to die of his injuries, fifteen days later in a German hospital.

The club, the city of Manchester and the English game entered a long period of mourning, and it seemed inconceivable that United could ever recover from such an appalling disaster.

But in 1986, Sir Alex Ferguson joined Manchester United as their head coach. He was criticized as for 8 seasons, he has not achieved an EPL Title but that will not stop him from unleashing a force all the teams in the world would not want to reckon with.

Sir Alex Ferguson is the most successful manager in British football history – winning 18 major trophies during his time in charge of the Reds. Yet despite almost two decades at the Old Trafford helm he remains focused on increasing that tally, bringing yet more silverware to Manchester United.

The silver wares were 7 EPL Title (1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003), 1 UEFA CHAMPION LEAGUE (1999), 5 FA Cup (1990, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2004), 2 LEAGUE Cup (1992, 2006), and an UEFA Cup (1991), INTERCONTENTAL Cup (1991) and some other UEFA cups.

In the season of 1999, Manchester United moved on to be the first team to ever achieve a Treble. The Treble became a quadruple later in the year when Sir Alex Ferguson's men travelled to Tokyo to compete for the Inter-Continental Cup. Keane's goal against Palmeiras of Brazil bestowed upon United the title of World Club Champions. Officially, at the end of the millennium, the biggest football club in the world had also become the best in the world!

Unfortunately, from the season of 2003/04 to 2005/06, Manchester United only manage one silverware which was the League Cup. People began to write of Man United as a title contender after Jose Mourinho and Roman came into picture with Billion dollar of spending power. Chelsea was transformed overnight to the world most expensive team, even surpassing the all star team of Real Madrid.

But the people and reporters who wrote off Man United was so so wrong. This season of 2006/07, Man United is on the road once again to achieve yet another Treble. They are in the semi-final for the UEFA CHAMPION LEAGUE, top in the EPL table and also in the semi-final for the FA Cup. A true Champion needs luck and a lot of blessing from GOD, may the Lord bless this team who worked so hard for everything